Kerin

“Till this day, if you happen to listen to my heartbeat, you might hear the singing voice of my Auntie Tu. She nurtured my soul with songs so that I can sing on.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

“Their eyes close and then open as one, looking down on me, and then up at the sky, as the wind circles them and moans, their gaping now, the airy rush their song, the rush: Yes.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“He was thinking of a diner near Queen West and Spadina, a place he'd frequented with Clark when they were seventeen...All these decades later, the place was eerily unchanged...He remembered being here with Clark at three or four or sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream. The dream lasted just a moment, but the moment was bright: both of them taking acting classes, Arthur working as a waiter while Clark burned through a small inheritance.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute," he said. "I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird